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Gwern Branwen Creating Essays on Gwern.net
statistic#proportion-of-important-thinkers-by-global-region-over-time-in-charles-murrays-human-accomplishment
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Quantifying the impact of rare and ultra-rare coding variation across the phenotypic spectrum
Discovery of the first genome-wide statistically-large risk loci for ADHD
Genetic contribution to two factors of Neuroticism is associated with affluence, better health, and longer life
Environmental factors dominate over host genetics in shaping human gut microbiota composition
https://www.reddit.com/r/Microbiome/comments/6hojbc/environmental_factors_dominate_over_host_genetics/
Widespread signatures of positive selection in common risk alleles associated to autism spectrum disorder
The genomic health of ancient hominins
You and Some ‘Cavemen’ Get a Genetic Checkup
Signatures of Negative Selection in the Genetic Architecture of Human Complex Traits
Detecting polygenic adaptation in admixture graphs
The Moral Question That Stanford Asks Its Bioengineering Students
Deep reinforcement learning from human preferences
Learning through human feedback [blog]
Learning from Human Preferences
Reluplex: An Efficient SMT Solver for Verifying Deep Neural Networks
A simple neural network module for relational reasoning
A Neural Approach to Relational Reasoning
One Model To Learn Them All
Attention Is All You Need
Deal or No Deal? End-To-End Learning for Negotiation Dialogues
Deal or No Deal? Training AI Bots to Negotiate
Learning to Learn from Noisy Web Videos
It Is an Industry like No Other, With Profit Margins to Rival Google—And It Was Created by One of Britain's Most Notorious Tycoons: Robert Maxwell.
Measurement Error, Regression to the Mean, and Group Differences
‘Bayes/regression-to-mean’ directory
What works in e-commerce-a meta-analysis of 6,700 online experiments
In Defense of Individualist Culture
The Godfather of the New Age Led a Secretive Group of Devoted Followers in the Last Decade of His Life. His Closest ‘Witches’ Remain Missing, and Former Insiders, Offering New Details, Believe the Women Took Their Own Lives.
Does High Self-Esteem Cause Better Performance, Interpersonal Success, Happiness, Or Healthier Lifestyles?
2014-02-25-matter-themanwhodestroyedamericasego.html
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/03/quasi-religious-great-self-esteem-con
Lithium in Drinking Water and Incidence of Suicide: A Nationwide Individual-Level Cohort Study with 22 Years of Follow-Up
Lithium in ground-water and well-being
https://cpilab.org/pubs/Dasgupta2017hypotheses.pdf
https://mosaicscience.com/story/falling-science-injury-death-falls/
When a Brain Tumor Left Pat Long With Persistent Déjà Vu, He Began to Question the Very Nature of Reality. Here, He Tells His Story for the First Time.
‘Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning’, De Marcken 2003 [ITA Software]
http://www.applied-math.org/optical_tempest.pdf
Google-Wide Profiling: A Continuous Profiling Infrastructure for Data Centers
Property Is Another Name for Monopoly: Facilitating Efficient Bargaining With Partial Common Ownership of Spectrum, Corporations, and Land
https://prod.sandia.gov/techlib/access-control.cgi/2014/141790.pdf
The Digital Antiquarian Table of Contents
GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary
Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media Lab
» Ken and Roberta
The Prisoner, Part 2
ZIL and the Z-Machine
» The IBM PC, Part 1
The IBM PC, Part 2
The IBM PC, Part 3
The IBM PC, Part 4
IBM’s New Flavor
Britain’s Occult Uncle
The Dennis Wheatley Crime Dossiers
Playing Deadline, Part 1
Playing Deadline, Part 2
Playing Deadline, Part 3
Playing Deadline, Part 4
Free Fall, Part 2: Murder on the Zinderneuf
The Hobbit
The Speccy
The Commodore 64
Business Is War
This Tormented Business, Part 1
This Tormented Business, Part 2
This Tormented Business, Part 3
Acorn and Amstrad
» The Apple II
Shiny and Exciting versus Dull and Boring
Seeing Farther
https://www.filfre.net/2014/02/macintosh/
Dan Bunten and M.U.L.E.
The Dawn of Multimedia
The Laser Craze
A Slow-Motion Revolution
» Michael Crichton
» From Congo to Amazon
Amazon in Pictures
The Computerized Hitchhiker’s
https://www.filfre.net/2013/12/elite/
» The Legend of Ultimate Play the Game
Mindwheel (Or, The Poet and the Hackers)
Of Wizards and Bards
The Road to IV
» Ultima IV
The Road to V
Ultima V
Apple, Carmen Sandiego, and the Rise of Edutainment
The 68000 Wars, Part 1: Lorraine
The 68000 Wars, Part 2: Jack Is Back!
The 68000 Wars, Part 3: We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up
The 68000 Wars, Part 4: Rock Lobster
MicroProse’s Simulation-Industrial Complex (Or, The Ballad of Sid and Wild Bill)
Pirates!
Railroad Tycoon
A New Force in Games, Part 1: Fractal Dreamers
A New Force in Games, Part 2: A Habitat in Cyberspace
A New Force in Games, Part 3: SCUMM
Lovecraft on the Tabletop
A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 1: Don’t Copy That Floppy!
A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 2: The Scene
A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 3: Case Studies in Copy Protection
Bill Williams: The Story of a Life
Opening the Gold Box, Part 2: Ten Odd Years at TSR
https://medium.com/@increment/the-ambush-at-sheridan-springs-3a29d07f6836
Generation Nintendo
Kit Williams’s Golden Hare, Part 1: The Contest
Kit Williams’s Golden Hare, Part 2: The Aftermath
» The Freedom to Associate
Turning On, Booting Up, and Jacking into Neuromancer
A Working-Class Hero, Part 1: Proletariat, Prisoner, and Pilot
A Working-Class Hero, Part 2: Bloody April
A Working-Class Hero, Part 3: Ace and Tactician
A Working-Class Hero, Part 4: A Hero’s Legacy
A Time of Endings, Part 3: Mediagenic (Or, The Patent from Hell)
The 640 K Barrier
A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 5: The Inflection Point
Games on the Mersey, Part 5: The Lemmings Effect
Games on the Net Before the Web, Part 2: MUD
Scientology and the Fellowship
Star Control II
https://www.filfre.net/2018/11/controlling-the-spice-part-2-cryos-dune/
Doing Windows, Part 1: MS-DOS and Its Discontents
Doing Windows, Part 2: From Interface Manager to Windows
Doing Windows, Part 3: A Pair of Strike-Outs
Doing Windows, Part 4: The Rapprochement
» Doing Windows, Part 5: A Second Try
Doing Windows, Part 6: Look and Feel
» Doing Windows, Part 7: Third Time’s the Charm
Doing Windows, Part 8: The Outsiders
Doing Windows, Part 9: Windows Comes Home
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMHd_47h3RQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7vUcjqIX-w
Lullaby of Deserted Hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCJQ1TZSDPc
[Touhou Vocal] [Riverside] Aisya -Ye Ru Amma- (Spanish & English Subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyIlS5K7WKs